Archive for March, 2013

Sunday, March 31st, 2013

2013 MARKS the Centenary Year of Britain’s first operational military airfield which was established in north-east Scotland at Montrose, between Dundee and Aberdeen. The Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre (MASHC) is finalising its preparations to celebrate 100 years of military flight from 1913 – 2013. (more…)

Saturday, March 30th, 2013

Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

IT’S ENCOURAGING to know there’s at least one reader of Saturday’s Courier who reads the Man with Two Dogs column. Maybe not as enthusiastically as the lady in the fish shop in Montrose who told the Doyenne that my article was the first thing she read every Saturday – “even before the Deaths column”! (more…)

Saturday, March 16th, 2013

RECENT MENTION of the first charabanc to ascend Cairn o’ Mount prompted a call from John Gove of Gourdon to tell me about Sir Sidney Gammell, one-time laird of Drumtochty which marches with Glen Saugh and the Cairn road. (more…)

Saturday, March 9th, 2013

HAVE YOU noticed how nature can bounce back with just the least encouragement? I’ve been moaning about the state of the countryside and how little wildlife activity there’s been. It just needed a couple of days of settled weather at the start of the week for the birds, in particular, to be back in action. (more…)